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Maureen Hickey

@maureenhickey.bsky.social
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Board member Democratic Party of the 49th Ward in Chicago. Choral singer. Contradancer.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Feel like its bad that federal officials believe they can act with impunity in assaulting a United States Senator. Late stage empire shit. www.nj.com/news/2026/05...
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ICE agents pepper spray protesters, N.J. senator in clash outside Delaney Hall in Newark
“It’s sad, it’s a sad day," says pepper-sprayed senator.
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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/05/2026
Chicagoland has seen a steady pace of ICE sighting + abduction alerts all week. After one person was taken in Waukegan yesterday, this morning feds are dispersed broadly across the burbs again. Seen in Round Lake Beach and Joliet so far. A worker was snatched at a Bolingbrook Burger King at 5:30am.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:
The months between signing and ratification were a busy period for the country. The proceedings of the Constitutional Convention had been kept secret, so each state needed to inform its voters of what exactly the proposed new government contained. Congress therefore directed the state legislatures to call ratification conventions in each state, with delegates specifically elected to approve or disapprove the new government.

However, this meant that each state from New Hampshire to Georgia had to receive a copy of the text, submit it to public debate, elect delegates, meet, vote, and return the results to Philadelphia. In an era where the speed of travel was limited by horseback, stagecoach, and boat, this was no quick feat. After the end of the Convention the news of the Constitution spread out in a wave, and thousands of copies were republished by local printers and distributed for debate. A flurry of newspaper articles, pamphlets, and public meetings followed, hotly debating whether the Constitution would be a good framework for a new national government.

Part of the debate and ratification process involved translation: non-negligible portions of the electorate spoke languages other than English. To reach them, the document was translated into Dutch in New York and German in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
exhausted historian of christianity screaming into the void, once again: christianity has never been apolitical. to wit: jesus was executed by the roman state.
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Many Popes Have Been Entangled in Politics. Here Are 5 of Them.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I realize this is confusing, but the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran isn’t a domestic political story.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Meanwhile, our Secretary of Defense
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is simply genocidal language and is a horror in itself.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026
Ansari: "Every person in this country needs to be calling R members of Congress relentlessly. Of all of the issues that have come up over last year, all have been devastating, but we're talking about potential for nuclear war here. That is the language Trump is using & we shouldn't pretend it's not"
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If I were a senator or congressperson, I would not be on social media right now. Actually, I would be on social media. I would be live in an airport or on a train while on my way back to the Capitol to hold a sit-in with as many colleagues and camera crews as possible over this ****.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
BIG BREAKING: Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has ordered a complete pause on infectious diseases testing, which includes rabies, tuberculosis, mumps, and hantavirus. RFK Jr. wants to freely move these infectious diseases among the people. Please spread this message widely.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
With alt text:
Chris Lund
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It's hilarious when Americans pity my Norwegian tax rate. And yes. We pay more to the state. In return, we get free healthcare, free college, and 49 weeks of fully paid parental leave. We do not have to crowd-fund our cancer treatments.
Your 'low taxes' just mean you pay private corporations a premium for the privilege of still going broke when you get sick. Our system is an investment in human dignity.
Yours is a GoFundMe waiting to happen.
The math is really not that complicated.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Greenland has universal health care and far higher standards of healthcare than are found in Louisiana and most of the US. In the meantime, Trump has blocked funding of the ACA, meaning that tens of millions of Americans are about to lose their healthcare coverage.
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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
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Susan Brigid @heysusanbrigid.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I'm sharing #40DaysofGoodShit as we head into spring, inspired by Nadia Bolz-Weber.
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Greenland has 56,000 people. Its health services are publicly funded by the Danish government. It doesn't need a 1000-bed hospital ship that's in drydock, anyway. Mobile, Alabama, where Mercy and Comfort are dry-docked, has 187,000 people & turned down Medicaid expansion under the ACA. It might.
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Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 @alcappuccinoit.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Sickening. www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...
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TN bill would allow death penalty for women who have an abortion
SBC President Clint Pressley endorsed the effort saying it would “provide preborn children with equal protection of the laws.”
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NPR @npr.org · 18/02/2026
The Food and Drug Administration's about-face comes a little more than a week after the agency refused to consider the company's application to market the new kind of influenza vaccine. n.pr/4rXQRbG
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FDA reverses course on Moderna flu shot
The Food and Drug Administration's about-face comes a little more than a week after the agency refused to consider the company's application to market the new kind of influenza vaccine.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
this seems mask off in a particularly weird way, even by the dismal standards of our present political era
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Today ICE killed Dr. Linda Davis. Not with a bullet, but her death is no less a direct result of DHS’s unhinged violence.
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.
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Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE
According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morning’s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The NYTimes often doesn't quote Trump at all, instead reframing his words with a summary falsely suggesting coherent thought, in contrast to the gibberish he actually said. They also don't mention how he routinely mumbles and slurs even prepared remarks, like here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zsd...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
It's like ICE is completely ignoring every lesson that moderately competent police forces are forced to learn, like "don't do high speed chases in densely populated areas with low risk targets"
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Robin Kelly, Ph.D. @robinlynnekelly.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I believe in campaign finance reform and public financing of campaigns. My opponents make big promises and then take money from billionaire backers, MAGA donors and private prisons. The time for lectures is over. It’s time for real campaign finance reform.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I think this is paywalled but you can get the gist www.ajc.com/news/2026/02...
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Georgia Army veteran deported by ICE after 50 years in U.S.
Godfrey Wade was arrested by immigration authorities following a traffic stop and was deported because of minor criminal violations from 20 years ago.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Here’s a story about him with no paywall: www.military.com/daily-news/h...
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Army Veteran Deported Despite Pending Appeal: 'He Served This Country'
“He served. He did what he was supposed to do. And now he’s not even here.”
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 17/02/2026
This sounds exactly like lawmakers saying they’re not banning abortion, they’re just requiring a 48-hour waiting period and two trips to the clinic
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patrick mcneil (he/him) @patrickryne.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
“If a government’s actions in a democracy require masks — if the people being governed in that democracy cannot know who is acting — that is a problem with what the government is doing, not with the governed.”
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Because for some people Kamala Harris “wasn’t clicking” for them. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters
Federal immigration officers have repeatedly used force in ways that appear to violate their own policies or general policing guidelines, NBC News found.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“military-grade intelligence tactics” “Pattern-of-life” intelligence Bro, you are eating microwaveable Campbell’s Soup for every meal and crashing out in front of the Home2Suites while you’re geared up like you’re in Fallujah
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
My suggestion is that the NY Times profile politicians who are not just thinking about kids detained by ICE, but actually doing something about it, rather than enabling it.
GOP Senator who can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained and cannot stop voting for Trump policies
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I hope every Democratic member of the House and Senate reads this and factors it into whatever funding bill gets agreed to. We have seen what ICE can do to U.S. Citizens in the streets, imagine what they will do at the polls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
FLASH: Weeks after Trump Admin pushed for crackdown on "fraud in Minnesota", the four prosecutors spearheading the case have *all left their jobs* Wave of departures is growing inside Justice Dept office in Minneapolis www.cbsnews.com/news/minneso...
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With latest Minnesota fraud case looming, the lead prosecutors have quit
The four prosecutors who spearheaded a $250 million Minnesota fraud case have all left the U.S. Attorney's Office in a growing wave of resignations.
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funnydivam.bsky.social @funnydivam.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social yet another theft of our tax dollars and resources.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
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Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts
Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
ICE is murdering them in the camps. They strangled Geraldo Campos to death. Chuck, the words you’re looking for are “abolish and prosecute every single one of them.” ICE cannot be reformed. Claw back the $75 billion or resign in disgrace.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
What @democrats.org and their apologists ("you see, be realistic, we need to wait until we're in power") do not understand. Electoralism is not politics, it is not leadership, it is not suitable for the moment.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Well, my fellow Maine voters. Here is Susan Collins today paying tribute to her boss while holding her MAGA hat.
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
TN Speaker met with Miller, then announced a set of bills that would turn local cops, judges, teachers, & social workers into mandatory immigration snitches, while criminalizing disclosure about immigration enforcement activities to the public.
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Tennessee to test Stephen Miller’s plan of enlisting states for immigration enforcement
Bills mandate ICE cooperation, school status checks and criminalize information release, testing constitutional lines
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...
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Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country
The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is civic action. Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside. 130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
No one wants to live next to migrant prisons in the Trump gulag.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“I had more stringent rules of engagement when I was in Iraq about what I could do to civilians there than ICE does with the citizens on the streets of our cities today,” says Sen. Tammy Duckworth.
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‘Sickening’: Trump’s new ICE man uses war jargon to describe Minnesota operations
YouTube video by MS NOW
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Is this a Win? Yes, but also No. Tl;dr: The best thing you can do is keep calling your Senators every single day and demanding that they vote against DHS funding bills, unless the funding bill includes significant cuts to the ICE budget + adds real oversight, not just the rules already in place.
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